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Angels of Bataan and Corregidor
  
Liberated nurses, February 12, 1945
ActiveDecember 1941 - March 1945
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnited States
BranchUnited States Army, United States Navy
TypeNurse corps
Size78 nurses
Nickname(s)Battling Belles of Bataan
EngagementsBattle of Bataan
Battle of Corregidor
World War II
Philippines Campaign
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Capt. Maude C. Davison (US Army), Lt. Laura M. Cobb (US Navy)

The Angels of Bataan (also known as the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor" and "The Battling Belles of Bataan"[1]) were the members of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps who were stationed in the Philippines at the outset of the Pacific War and served during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942). When Bataan and Corregidor fell, 11 navy nurses, 66 army nurses, and 1 nurse-anesthetist were captured and imprisoned in and around Manila.[2][3] They continued to serve as a nursing unit while prisoners of war.[4][5] After years of hardship, they were finally liberated in February 1945.

  1. ^ According to research by Dr. Elizabeth Norman, the nurses first referred to themselves as the "Battling Belles of Bataan" in 1942; the phrase "Angels of Bataan" appeared later, in 1945. Norman, Elizabeth (2013). We Band of Angels, p. 53, p. 296 note 8.
  2. ^ Norman, Elizabeth (2013). We Band of Angels, Appx. II
  3. ^ Monahan, Evelyn M. & Neidel-Greenlee, Rosemary (2003). All This Hell, pp. 193–195 (Appx. G).
  4. ^ Monahan, Evelyn M. & Neidel-Greenlee, Rosemary (2004). And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II, p. 19 (First Anchor Books Ed, November 2004)(ISBN 1-4000-3129-X)
  5. ^ Monahan, Evelyn M. & Neidel-Greenlee, Rosemary (2003). All This Hell, p. 103.

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